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A38
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Guardian www.guardian.co.tt Wednesday, September 18, 2013
The first witness in Kenya Vice
President William Ruto s crimes
against humanity trial broke
down Tuesday as she testified
how a singing, machete-wielding
mob trapped thousands inside a
church and set it ablaze.
The woman, whose identity is
protected and referred to only as
"Witness P0536," told the Inter-
national Criminal Court that
"around 3,000" youths surround-
ed the church where she had joined
some 2,000 people in hiding.
"They were painted with white
clay...some had machetes, axes and
sticks," she said, adding "they were
singing."
"We were all trying to find a
way to escape. I was carrying my
small child with me," the witness
recalled on the opening day of the
prosecution s case against Ruto.
"The church was set alight," said
the woman, whose face was pixel-
lated on television screens and her
voice disguised as she testified in
Swahili, before she broke down
sobbing.
She described how the church
roof was covered with fuel, alleged-
ly "carried in a blue plastic jer-
rycan" by a local opposition leader.
The witness said bicycles were
used to block a main entrance of
the church to stop people from
escaping, while youths laid in wait
at another exit.
"When somebody tried to leave
the church, they would grab the
person and push them back inside,"
she said.
"I went mad," she told the
judges.
The prosecution alleges the
massacre was part of a plan of
ethnic violence orchestrated by
Ruto to "satisfy his thirst for
power" after disputed 2007 elec-
tions. More than 1,000 people died
in the post-poll unrest.
Presiding judge Chile Eboe-Osuji
cut short proceedings before lunch
to give the witness a chance to
compose herself.
Ruto, 46, and his co-defendant,
Kenyan radio boss Joshua arap
Sang, 38, stand accused of organ-
ising and stoking the worst vio-
lence in the east African country
since independence in 1963. They
are pleading not guilty.
Kenyan President Uhuru Keny-
atta, Ruto s former political foe
turned ally, begins his own trial
for crimes against humanity at the
court on November 12. He has also
proclaimed his innocence.
The violence, which laid bare
simmering ethnic tensions, was
mainly directed at members of
Kenya s largest Kikuyu tribe, who
were perceived as supporters of
then president Mwai Kibaki s Party
of National Unity. (AFP)
Kenya VP trial witness sobs
recalling church massacre
MADRID---Hundreds of Africans
seeking to enter Europe made a co-
ordinated assault on the triple wall
that divides Spanish enclave Melilla
from Morocco yesterday, with about
a hundred of them getting over.
Six Spanish civil guards and one
immigrant were injured in the inci-
dent, the latest in several mass
attempts to scale the wall in recent
months, the government of the ter-
ritory said in a statement.
About 300 people were involved in
the attack, which started early in the
morning. While some of the immi-
grants climbed the wall, others threw
objects at border guards that were
trying to stop them, the government
said.
Spain has two enclaves in Morocco,
Ceuta and Melilla. Last year, 2,841
immigrants crossed from Africa into
the two territories, either swimming
along the coastline, climbing the bar-
rier or hiding in vehicles. That number
was down from 2011.
Numbers for 2013 are not yet avail-
able.
The migrants were taken to an
internment centre where Spain
attempts to establish their identity
and nationality. Depending on treaties
between Spain and the country of
origin of each immigrant, some are
repatriated and others are allowed into
Spain.
Many of the migrants enter Melil-
la---where Spain reinforced the
perimeter wall a few years ago---with
no documentation.
Every year, thousands of African
immigrants try to reach Spanish and
Italian territory on small rafts, and
there are rescues and drownings
almost every week.
On Monday, the Spanish Coast
Guard rescued 156 immigrants in seven
small boats and rafts. One of the boats
capsized and 42 people were thrown
into the sea. The Coast Guard rescued
30 but 12 were missing, according to
Spanish Television. (Reuters)
African immigrants rush
barrier into Spain enclave